Perfect By Nature

Chapter XX:  Interaction

By:  Michelle

"Mmmm….Pizza."  Michaelangelo said as two boxes were placed at the table he was sitting at.  ""Food of gods and turtles."

Rogue, Bobby, Kitty, Jubilee, and Piotr stared at him as he began stuffing his face.  After a while, they couldn't help but laugh.

"Is there something on my face?"  Michaelangelo asked with a pepperoni on his nose. 

"Yeah."  Bobby laughed.  "On your nose."

Michaelangelo practically crossed his eyes trying to look at his nose.  Then, in an effort to get the pepperoni off and get attention, he tried to use his tongue to get it off.  "Almost got it."

Rogue, Bobby, Kitty, Jubilee, and Piotr laughed at the scene Michaelangelo was causing. 

Leonardo just rolled his eyes.  God Mikey.  Can you be anymore embarrassing?

Ororo picked at her slice of cheese pizza.  She was hungry, yet then again she couldn't eat.  The silence between her and Kurt was really starting to take its toll.

Kurt leaned back in his chair.  He was starving, but too sick to the stomach to eat.  He wanted to end the silence between him and Ororo, but he wasn't even sure where to begin.

What do I say to her?  I'm I suppose to apologize to her?  Or is she supposed to apologize to me?  What would we really be apologizing to each other for?  Kurt sighed.  "Excuse me."  He said as the got up from the table.  "It has been a long day.  I'm going to lie down."

"Alright Kurt."  Xavier said to him.  "I will contact you if I need you."

"Ja Professor."

BAMF

Ororo sighed as she watched him disappear leaving behind a sulfur and brimstone smelling blue smoke.  Should I follow him?

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Later that evening…

"This is the Danger Room."  Xavier explained Splinter, Leonardo, Venus, Donatello, and Raphael.  "It's where the X-men train for battle."  He motioned for them to look out the window.  "Logan, also known as Wolverine, may look like he is fighting the air around him.  But, in the Danger Room, he is surrounded by a program creating an illusion of a battle."

"Really."  Donatello said as he looked out the window.  "So you use computer animated simulations and robots to train."

"That is correct Donatello."  Xavier answered.  "The robot that appeared out of the side has a hologram surrounding it.  So, to Logan, it maybe one of his adversaries."

"Looks kinda cheesy if ya ask me."  Raphael said as the looked at Logan fight.

"Raph."

"Well."  Raphael shrugged.  "It does."

Xavier wheeled over to him.  "Would you like to try it out?"

"Shit."  Raphael said to him.  "I'd mop the floor in that thing."

"Is that a yes or a no?"

"It's a yes."

"Alright then."  Xavier said as he shut down the program Logan was on. 

Logan grunted as the scene around him disappeared.  "Alright, who the fuck cut off my simulation?"

"I did Logan."  Xavier said over the loud speaker.  "I'm sending down Raphael for a demonstration." 

"I really don't want the company, Chuck."  Logan reminded him that he preferred to fight alone unless he, Storm and Nightcrawler had to do a team fight.

"Oh well."  Raphael said he walked up besides Logan.  "Afraid I might make you look bad."

Logan mumbled something under his breath and signaled for Xavier to restart the simulation.

"So Leo, how long do you think it will take for Raph to get his ass kicked?"  Donatello asked. 

"Five minutes."  Leonardo replied. 

"That's all you are giving him.  I think he might make it to ten tops."  Donatello replied.  "What do you think Venus?"

"Huh."  Venus said snapping from a daze she was in.

"How long do you think it will take for Raph to get his ass kick down there?" 

"Oh."  Venus thought for a moment.  "I don't know.  Maybe three."  She said.  "I'm not really in the mood for betting.  I think I'm going to take a walk."

"Ok."  Leonardo said.  "Do you want me to come with you?"

"No.  I'll be fine."  Venus replied.  "Professor Do you mind if I take a walk."

"No Venus."  Xavier replied.  "Go right ahead."

The Danger Room didn't look like a giant metal room.  It looked like a jungle.  Out of what seemed to be bushes, three simulated robots came out.  Wolverine described them as Sabretooth, Scalphunter, and Riptide.  Raphael described it as HOLY SHIT.

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"Alright."  Michaelangelo said calming down from his laughter.  "This is my Fire Marshall Bill impression."  He turned around.  "Let me tell ya, tell ya something, tell ya something.  Let me tell ya some-thing." 

This guy cracks better jokes than I do.  Bobby thought to himself.

"LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING.  There's a little kitty cat walking up the street.  Pick it up.  It's a female.  Ahhh!"  Michaelangelo said and imitated a cat attacking him. 

They students were laughing at him so hard many were crying. 

"Ahhhhhh!" 

Venus shook her head as she walked in the room.  Michaelangelo acts so stupid sometimes.  "Hey Mikey."

"AHHHH!"  Michaelangelo stopped acting like a fool the second he heard her voice.  "Hello Babe.  How you doin'?"  He said imitating Joey from Friends.

Great he's hitting on me.  "No."  Venus replied.  "Actually, I'm looking for Ororo.  Have you seen her?"

Michaelangelo scratched his head.  "I don't know where she is."

"She might be in the greenhouse."  Rogue said to her.  "She usually goes there in the evenings to water her plants."

"Where's the greenhouse?"

"On the other side of the mansion."  Bobby pointed.  "You just go straight down the hallway and you will run into it."

"Ok."  Venus replied.  "Thank you."

Michaelangelo waited until she left before he started again.  "Alright.  Where was I?  Oh yeah."

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Raphael spun his sais as he defeated one of the robots, called Scalphunter.  He had to admit this wasn't as easy as it looked.  Wolverine was barely breaking a sweat, but he on the other hand was finding it hard to breath. 

Raphael dodged a series of spikes from the simulation of Riptide.  One sliced him in the arm.  He glanced at it to see blood roll down his arm.  Damn, this thing is for real. 

Wolverine dodged Sabretooth's swings several times.  He always hated Sabretooth.  Ever since Alkali Lake, he had been remembering a few things from his past.  One of the things her remembered was working with Sabretooth and how much they hated each other. 

Leonardo's eyes widened at the fight below.  He could see Raphael struggling with the robot.  Well, it serves Raph right for acting so cocky.

Wolverine flipped Sabretooth over his back slamming him to the ground.  He jumped on him and stabbed him in the chest with both hands.  He howled in satisfaction of the kill.

Raphael backed up slightly as Riptide advanced at him.  He managed to dodge another series of spikes, but he wasn't sure how much more he could handle.

Wolverine looked over to the struggling Raphael.  Kid's about to get nailed.  He leaped in the air with his arms out and claws extended.

Raphael found himself weaponless and corner when he saw Wolverine practically flying in the air.  Is that man nuts or what? 

Wolverine slammed into Riptide and sunk his claws deep into it.  When he stood up, the simulation cut off.  "Come on." 

"Problems Raph."  Leonardo said as his brother and Logan walked into the room. 

Raphael gave him an evil eye.  "Shut up Leo." 

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Venus slowly opened the door to the greenhouse.  She was in aw at the different types of plants there.  Some were even from her homeland in China.  Of course, what really surprised her was the mini rain cloud floating around watering the plants.  "Ororo."

"Who's there?"  Ororo asked as she looked around.

"It's Venus."  She said.  "I would like to talk to you."

"About what?"  Ororo asked and got back to transferring on of her plants into a larger pot.

"It's about Kurt."  Venus replied and walked over to her.  "And you."

Ororo sighed.  "There's nothing to talk about."

"Then why do I sense something is wrong?"  Venus replied.  "I may not be a telepath like Professor Xavier, but I do know when something is not right.  Why have you and Kurt acting so distant, when there is something there between you."

"You're not going to leave until I answer you, are you?"  Ororo sighed as Venus shook her head no.  "Kurt asked me on a date, and I said no."

"Why would you tell him No.?"  Venus asked.  "He's such a sweet man."

"I know."  Ororo hung her head.  "And it has nothing to do with his appearance if that is what you are thinking.  It has to do with me."

"I don't understand."

"I've been in bad relationships before."  Ororo explained.  "I guess a part of me is afraid of getting hurt again."

"That's understandable."

"The other part of me is afraid of losing him."  She said.  "I don't want to get too attached to one person to have them taken away from me by an adversary."

"True."  Venus admitted.  "But would you rather lose someone without them knowing how you feel about them?  Wouldn't it be better to love someone for five minutes, then to never love at all?"

Ororo wiped a tear from her cheek and sniffled.  "What do you know about love?"

"Nothing."  Venus replied.  "I can't say I have ever been in love.  But when that moment comes, I am never going to let it slip thru my fingers."  She said to her.  "I'll see you later Ororo."

Ororo stood there speechless until Venus left the greenhouse. Then, she cried.  I need to talk to him.  I need to let him know how I feel.  She wiped the tears from her eyes and headed towards Kurt's room.

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Yeah.  Another chapter finished.

Fire Marshall Bill was an act Jim Carrey did on the TV Show In Living Color.

Thanks for all the reviews.

Oh.  For those of you awaiting my sequel to The Truth Hurts, I am working on the first few chapters.  I'm not going to post it until this fanfic is finished.

Anyways, I'll see you next chapter.

Michelle